Jefferson Center for Vaccines & Pandemic Preparedness Research
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Position:
Chair & Professor, SKMC Department of Microbiology & Immunology
233 South Tenth Street
Bluemle Life Sciences Building, 531
Philadelphia, PA 19107
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Associate Director for Basic Research
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Associate Director for Clinical Research
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JCVPP Administrator
Email:
Cheryl.King@jefferson.edu
Vaccine Design, Delivery & Immune Responses
We are developing novel approaches to vaccination in order to target some of the worlds more important infectious diseases.
We are developing novel approaches to vaccination in order to target some of the worlds more important infectious diseases.
Faculty Research/Lab Sites & Publications
Names are linked to their respective lab web sites or academic profiles.
David Abraham, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Publications
- A rodent model for Dirofilaria immitis, canine heartworm: parasite growth, development, and drug sensitivity in NSG mice
- Adjuvanted Fusion Protein Vaccine Induces Durable Immunity to Onchocerca volvulus in Mice and Non-Human Primates
- Is Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection induced by glucocorticoids a result of both suppressed host immunity and altered parasite genetics?
- Co-Administration of Adjuvanted Recombinant Ov-103 and Ov-RAL-2 Vaccines Confer Protection against Natural Challenge in A Bovine Onchocerca ochengi Infection Model of Human Onchocerciasis
- Development of a Vaccine Against Onchocerca volvulus
Botond Igyarto , PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Publications
- Dendritic cells overcome Cre/Lox induced gene deficiency by siphoning cytosolic material from surrounding cells
- The mRNA-LNP vaccines – the good, the bad and the ugly?
- Local IL-23 is required for proliferation and retention of skin-resident memory TH17 cells
- Intracellular monitoring by dendritic cells – a new way to stay informed – from a simple scavenger to an active gatherer
- Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNP inhibits adaptive immune responses and alters innate immune fitness in an inheritable fashion
Drishya Kurup, PhD
Research Instructor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Publications
- Inactivated rabies-based Lassa fever virus vaccine candidate LASSARAB protects nonhuman primates from lethal disease
- Toward the Development of a Pan-Lyssavirus Vaccine
- Effects of adjuvants in a rabies-vectored Ebola virus vaccine on protection from surrogate challenge
- Inactivated rabies-vectored SARS-CoV-2 vaccine provides long-term immune response unaffected by vector immunity
- Measles-based Zika vaccine induces long-term immunity and requires NS1 antibodies to protect the female reproductive tract
Adriana Mantegazza, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Publications
- Examining the Kinetics of Phagocytosis-Coupled Inflammasome Activation in Murine Bone Marrow-Derived Dendritic Cells
- Dissecting Phagosomal Pattern Recognition Receptor-Dependent Signaling and Antigen MHC-II Presentation from Phagosomes in Murine Dendritic Cells
- The phagosomal solute transporter SLC15A4 promotes inflammasome activity via mTORC1 signaling and autophagy restraint in dendritic cells
- A guide to measuring phagosomal dynamics
- Phosphatidylinositol-4-kinase IIα licenses phagosomes for TLR4 signaling and MHC-II presentation in dendritic cells
Carolina R. Melo-Silva, PhD
Instructor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Publications
- Innate and adaptive immune responses that control lymph-borne viruses in the draining lymph node
- mRNA-LNP vaccine-induced CD8+ T cells protect mice from lethal SARS-CoV-2 infection in the absence of specific antibodies
- Multiple and Consecutive Genome Editing Using i-GONAD and Breeding Enrichment Facilitates the Production of Genetically Modified Mice
- Resistance To Poxvirus Lethality Does Not Require the Necroptosis Proteins RIPK3 or MLKL
- Design and preclinical evaluation of a universal SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine
Matthias Schnell, PhD
Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Dr. V. Watson Pugh & Frances Plimpton Pugh Professor in Microbiology & Immunology
Director, Jefferson Center for Vaccines & Pandemic Preparedness
Publications
- Inactivated rabies-based Lassa fever virus vaccine candidate LASSARAB protects nonhuman primates from lethal disease
- Toward the Development of a Pan-Lyssavirus Vaccine
- The Development of a Rabies Virus-Vectored Vaccine against Borrelia burgdorferi, Targeting BBI39
- GP38 as a vaccine target for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
- Effects of adjuvants in a rabies-vectored Ebola virus vaccine on protection from surrogate challenge
Luis Sigal, DMV, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Publications
- The roles of CD4+ T cell help, sex, and dose in the induction of protective CD8+ T cells against a lethal poxvirus by mRNA-LNP vaccines
- Innate and adaptive immune responses that control lymph-borne viruses in the draining lymph node
- mRNA-LNP vaccine-induced CD8+ T cells protect mice from lethal SARS-CoV-2 infection in the absence of specific antibodies
- Dietary L-Tryptophan consumption determines the number of colonic regulatory T cells and susceptibility to colitis via GPR15
- Multiple and Consecutive Genome Editing Using i-GONAD and Breeding Enrichment Facilitates the Production of Genetically Modified Mice
Christopher Snyder, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Publications
- Multiple and Consecutive Genome Editing Using i-GONAD and Breeding Enrichment Facilitates the Production of Genetically Modified Mice
- Mechanisms of antiviral cytotoxic cd4 t cell differentiation
- Inhibitory Molecules PD-1, CD73 and CD39 Are Expressed by CD8+ T Cells in a Tissue-Dependent Manner and Can Inhibit T Cell Responses to Stimulation
- Hematopoietic cell-mediated dissemination of murine cytomegalovirus is regulated by NK cells and immune evasion
- STING sensing of murine cytomegalovirus alters the tumor microenvironment to promote antitumor immunity